Coriaceous [adjective]

Definition of Coriaceous:

hard, durable

Synonyms of Coriaceous:


Opposite/Antonyms of Coriaceous:

Soft

Smooth

Supple


Sentence/Example of Coriaceous:

Two lateral lamin, often coriaceous, by which the ovipositor when unemployed is covered.

The upper organs of flight, when they are corneous or coriaceous at the base and membranous at the apex.

I find a copying press very valuable in making the impression, especially if the leaf is at all coriaceous.

The coriaceous part of the hemelytra is of a purple tint, but the membranous part is brown.

Those whose food is succulent grow more rapidly than those which have for their food dry gramineous plants and coriaceous lichens.

They are almost coriaceous in texture, smooth and dark-bluish-green above, paler, and sometimes slightly chaffy beneath.

Pericarp woody, dehiscent at the tip by 2–4 valves; contains 1–4 seeds, slightly orbiculate, coriaceous.

Fruit fleshy, ovoid, acute and somewhat curved at the end enclosing a seed with coriaceous, downy testa.

The tree is a small evergreen, having alternate, glabrous, coriaceous leaves which are crowded at the ends of the stout branches.

Name from , a rattle; the loose seeds rattling in the coriaceous inflated pods.